International Journal of Bilingualism articles from June 2011

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from June 2011

The measurement of bilingual proficiency: introduction.(Special issue introduction)
June 1, 2011... This special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism is dedicated to the memory of our good friend and colleague David Malvern who passed away in September 2010. David's valuable contribution to the special issue is much appreciated...

Comparing levels of processability across languages.
June 1, 2011... Abstract In this article we utilize a developmental perspective as a metric for the comparison of bilingual language ability. In particular, we utilize Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998a, 2005) which provides a psycholinguistic metric...

Operationalizing and measuring language dominance.
June 1, 2011... Abstract The aim of this article is to show how measures of lexical richness (Guiraud, 1954; Malvern, Richards, Chipere, & Duran, 2004) can be used to operationalize and measure language dominance among bilinguals. A typology of...

Assessing bilingual attainment: macrostructural planning in narratives.
June 1, 2011... Abstract The present study addresses questions concerning bilinguals' attainment in the two languages by investigating the extent to which early bilinguals manage to apply the information structure required in each language when producing a...

Do word associations assess word knowledge? A comparison of L1 and L2, child and adult word associations.
June 1, 2011... Abstract Differences in word associations between monolingual and bilingual speakers of Dutch can reflect differences in how well seemingly familiar words are known. In this (exploratory) study mono- and bilingual, child and adult free word...

Predicting individual differences in L2 speakers' gestures.
June 1, 2011... Abstract While it is well known that there is a lot of variability in L2, researchers rarely measure the variability in L1 to predict the variability in L2. In this study we tested two explanations of the rate of gestures used in telling a...

Language dominance in Turkish-German bilinguals: methodological aspects of measurements in structurally different languages.
June 1, 2011... Abstract The purpose of this study is to establish measures of language dominance in bilinguals who speak structurally different languages, in our case German and Turkish, with tools that are based on fluency and oral proficiency. A...